The Top 250 Hits of the Last 50 Years - #224 Like A G6 - Far East Movement

"Like a G6" is a 2010 song by Far East Movement, featuring The Cataracs and Dev, from the Far East Movement album Free Wired. All of the artists wrote the song, and production was helmed by The Cataracs. For the chorus, Dev samples a verse from her own single "Booty Bounce", which was also written and produced by the Cataracs.
"Like a G6" was number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks ending November 6, 2010, and then again for the week of November 27 of the same year. It is one of only eight singles in Billboard history to return to No. 1 after two or more other singles had succeeded it in that position^. The song also topped the charts in New Zealand and South Korea, and reached the top ten in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Belgium, the Netherlands, Thailand, Sweden, Switzerland and Slovakia.
The "G6" in the song "Booty Bounce", which was sampled in "Like a G6", came about when the songs' producers, the Cataracs, were looking for a rhyme for the line "Sippin' sizzurp in my ride, like Three 6", a reference to the 2000 song "Sippin' on Some Syrup" by rap group Three 6 Mafia. They settled on "G6", meant to be a hyperbolic reference to the private airplane model Gulfstream IV, referred to as a "G4". The G4 had been name-checked in songs such as Drake's 2009 "Forever". A G6, they decided, was "flyer than a G4", according to Far East Movement member Kev Nish. The song has been incorrectly speculated to be about other things, including the Pontiac G6 and the Suunto G6 watch. There is also a Gulfstream model, the Gulfstream G650, although the song's writers were not aware of this at the time.

Reception

"Like a G6" samples its chorus from Dev's "Booty Bounce".

The song has sold 3 million paid downloads in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Gulfstream Aerospace has stated that they were "thrilled" about the product reference.

Music video

The music video, which was directed by Matt Alonzo and edited by Thomas Uncles, premiered on YouTube and VEVO on June 2, 2010. The line "sippin' sizzurp" and the word "slizzard" are censored on some channels. It follows a woman in a red dress (Erica Ocampo) picking up a friend from a restaurant and going to an alcohol store, presumably in preparation for a party. A later scene shows the woman and her friends at the party. Dev and the members of Far East Movement can also be seen in this party scene. The final scene shows the members of Far East Movement getting on a Gulfstream IV the next morning.